Friday, August 3, 2012

Diagnosis? Bastard!

With Victims being on holiday for the
next six months or so, I've finally got around to starting a new band
with Bloody Kev. We've been talking about it ever since we decided
we were leaving Raging Speedhorn, which coincidentally happened
whilst we were stood watching Victims at a show in Göteborg back in
2008. Funny how things work out...

The new band is called Diagnosis?
Bastard!. Along with me on guitar and Kev on vocals, Viktor
(Nitad/Pig Eyes) is playing drums and Lucas (Avalanche) is on bass.
With Viktor being a Swede and Lucas hailing from Brazil, we're hoping
we can break into the Best International Act category at all the
major music awards next year.

With Kev living in London and the other
three being Stockholmites, or honoury Stockholmites at least, we've
been busy writing songs instrumentally, in anticpation of Kev flying
in to scream over the top of them when ready. We've had one such
visit from Kev so far which resulted in one night of full-on practice
(the first night), followed by two days of lying about on the floor
of the rehearsal space, hungover, talking about practice. The songs
are short, fast and simple though, so it went ok anyway.

Kev of course, came up with the band
name. It took me a little while to get it out of him, but he
eventually told me that he'd come up with it whilst sat at home
watching the old tv show Diagnosis, Murder, the
one with Dick Van Dyke as the protagonist. At some point the thought
struck him, “Dick Van Dyke you big bastard!”, from whence the
name Diagnosis? Bastard! came. Classic Kev...

Anyway,
we've recorded five songs with our friend Linus at his studio, the
same place we recorded the last Victims album. Kev is coming over
for another weekend at the end of August to record vocals on those
and to rehearse some newer songs I've been writing. So I'm hoping
the first DB seven inch will be released by someone who thinks it
might be fun to do so, sometime this autumn. We're planning a few
shows too. As well as some in Sweden and the UK, we're talking about
some squat shows in Spain around November time..

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Hello...

This is a blog about life playing in a hardcore band...

...and some other stuff.

I started playing in bands when I was 14. I quit school when I was 18, around the same time I formed Raging Speedhorn. We played our first show in our home town, Corby, England in August 99 and our final show in Yamaguchi, Japan in November 08.

During that time I toured the world, moved to Stockholm, Sweden, got married and got a dog. And then we got a daughter.

These days I play in Victims, Diagnosis? Bastard! and Battle of Santiago. I also mess around with another couple of bands.

I managed a "hip" little bar on Södermalm for a few years but turns out that's a youth's game and I'm not that young anymore... So now I'm back in school, trying my best to make something of myself. Again.

The gaps in my schedule are filled working at a homeless shelter which is one of the best jobs I've ever had.

I spend most of my money on records and my free time going to gigs, drinking caffiene, watching football and walking my dog.